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Do not put words in my mouth

I never said that "bits are bits" when obtained from different sources. Jitter, and the whole process of DA conversion may be different....

However, once read in to the memory, and played from memory with the same program and hardware, not read in chunks from the drive or other source, or through different software/hardware that difference goes away.

You have the same file (read from wherever you had it) in the same physical location (memory), converted by the same program/process.

If you hear the difference that you have been smoking something.

Alternatively, the source files are not the same or memory play is not actually so, or there are variables in the computer that affect the play over time.
But none of those has anything to do with the original source of the file.

It is possible that "...instances of particular discs when ripped better drives or better software sounding much superior" but only for one reason, resulting files were different (because of reading errors).

There are number of ways to compare audio files, just Google it.
Easy one is you started ripping form the same CD would be checksum command.



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